Even Dedicated Diablo Immortal Streamers Are Quitting

The Diablo Immortal storm continues, and this time, even its most dedicated streamers on all major platforms are quitting the game.

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GameRant reports that a number of big names have already quit streaming Immortal, and that viewership on Twitch has dropped, among others. Quin69 is perhaps one of the biggest Diablo Immortal streamers to quit the game, after he did so in protest of the game's predatory microtransactions.

Here at GameNGuide, we reported about Quin69 deleting a character he actually spent $15K upgrading his Diablo Immortal character. After uninstalling the game from his PC, he also posted a scathingly sarcastic tweet aimed at Activision Blizzard while also urging fellow Twitch streamers who play the game to do the same:

Of course, he also told his viewers and followers to join in. Now, if you might be wondering what gives him such power, the guy has almost 700K followers on Twitch and is one of the biggest content creators on the platform. If there's somebody that Activision Blizzard wants on their side to keep Immortal alive, it's this guy.

Next up is the YouTuber wudjio, a renowned content creator in the greater Diablo scene. He's uploaded hundreds upon hundreds of videos on Diablo 2, Diablo 3 Resurrected, to name a few. Recently, he posted a 34-minute video detailing why he's quitting as one of the numerous Diablo Immortal streamers. Here's the video if you want to watch it all:

It's a pretty lengthy video obviously, but his thoughts can be summarized into these words: he always considered it as a "short-term game." This is even if he went into the game as open-minded as possible, despite all the negativity surrounding it and its monetization system. But he then felt like Immortal's pay-to-win system was comparable to using cheat codes, which is something he said he wouldn't partake in even if he was the richest person in the world.

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Declining Twitch Viewership

One can argue that Twitch is the premiere streaming platform for video games. Activision Blizzard likely wanted as much exposure for Immortal on that platform, but the game's controversial nature meant its numbers could never hold out for long.

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As per the original GameRant report, Immortal's viewership on Twitch once reached a peak of 224,000 users across roughly 2,700 channels on June 2nd. That was the game's launch date, which means the numbers are more or less expected for any newly released game.

But as of this writing, the game's viewership has dropped to an insanely low 1.6K viewers, as per the home page for Immortal on Twitch. That's it. The game still has 77.1K followers, but the viewership drop is just beyond imagining. This makes Activision Blizzard's newest MMORPG among the lowest-ranked games on Twitch in terms of overall following and viewership.

For now, it really is just a matter of time whether or not Diablo Immortal will die. But free-to-play games with similar monetization systems are still alive, so they might be doing at least something right.

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